Stochastic and scaling climate sensitivities: Solar, volcanic and orbital forcings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lovejoy, S ^a   Schertzer, D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DETERMINISTIC QUANTITY; EMPIRICAL DATA; FORCINGS; SCALING FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL LINKS; TEMPERATURE DATA; UPPER BOUND;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA SET; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VOLCANO;

EID: 84861862395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051871     Document Type: Article

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